9^th Grade English Name:_______________________

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Chapters 3 and 4 Review Sheet

NOTE: A minimum of two of these questions (one from Ch. 3 and one from Ch. 4) will be on the first Mockingbird quiz! Take good notes today.

Chapter 3

1. Why is Scout rubbing Walter Cunningham’s face in the dirt?

2. Why does Calpurnia scold Scout during dinner? What is Calpurnia’s message or lesson?

3. Describe Burris Ewell—inside as well as out. What’s the Ewell family like?

4. How does Calpurnia treat Scout after school that evening?

5. What “simple trick” (p. 30) does Atticus try to teach Scout?

6. Why is it “okay” for the Ewell children not to go to school? For Mr. Ewell to hunt and trap out of season?

7. What agreement do Scout and Atticus make at the end of this chapter?

Chapter Four

8. Coming home from school, what does Scout find in a knothole of the Radley oak tree?

9. As summer approaches, how is Calpurnia “changing”? Can you think of a reason for this change?

10. What is the next thing Scout and Jem find in the knothole of the oak tree?

11. What do Jem and Scout decide to do with their new-found “treasure”?

12. Dill returns for the summer. What are some things he’s seen or done on his trip to Maycomb?

13. What game do they play with an old tire? What happens? What did Scout see at the Radley place? (The answer to that last one isn’t clear until the last page of the chapter.)

14. What game do the kids then start playing, out in the front of the house? What do they do when Mr. Nathan Radley walks by? Why does Atticus get angry when he realizes what they’re doing?

15. What, according to Jem, is the problem with girls?